Blueberry Pickin'

We always miss the fall season of picking your own apples and pumpkins but here in Florida you can pick your own strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries. We found a "pick your own" blueberry farm about an hour away called Blue Bayou Farm. So we packed up for a mini road trip and off we went. Madalyn will eat an entire pint of blueberries in one sitting so she LOVES them.


Off with buckets in hand.....


Guilty as sin I think. He didn't get the concept of not eating them before you pay for them. We should have done a weigh in on him before we started and then after to get an accurate account of what he ate!


There he is again.....

We ended the afternoon with a picnic in some park we found along the way. Oh, by the way, we picked almost 6 lbs of blueberries. I'll be freezing some for pancakes, blueberry crisp, and muffins....YUMMY.

Mother's Day

Matt surprised me with a weekend at the Dolphin Hotel and this was my view from the comfy hammock I settled into. It was the most relaxing weekend I've had in a long time. We played for hours in the pool, enjoyed the sun, but mostly I just enjoyed being with my hubby and my bugs.

This is a huge checkers board. Madalyn is beginning to learn strategy...

My Joy Girl.

My Handsome boy couldn't get enough of the pool.

Sweetness.

And for whatever reason, they're aren't any pics of just Matt but if there were, the caption would be "The Love of my Life". Thanks Honey. I really had a great time.......

Georgia Part 3.....

Mason is at that age where he is obsessed with trains. The Blue Ridge Scenic Railway would open its season right after we were leaving so we were bummed to have missed it. But we took the kids down by the train to take some pics. Mason was so excited.


Like the rain boots, by the way?

Bigger than life for this little guy.

Loves choo choo tracks.

He got a new train that makes noise in lieu of riding it and was happy with that.

After visiting the train, we headed out to find a suspension bridge we had read about. It was off some little country access road that was described as "a 3 mile bumpy trip". Now remember we are in a rental minivan. We found it and headed on up. It remains the talk between Matt and I. It was a one lane, curvy, muddy, hold your breath kind of trip. But once we began we were sort of commited...lol. We made it to the top and it was worth it.

A long view. It was pretty solid but did move as you walked across it. The views were pretty in either direction.

A sepia shot.....

So, remember I said it was muddy? We were nervous about the trip down and making jokes the whole way. Seriously, if we had ran into someone coming the other way, not sure what we would have done. The snow was melting so some places were muddy, particularly the turns. We were sure we were going to get stuck but in the end, all was well. However, you can see the mud up on the sideview mirror that had been kicked up onto the van. Later when we got out, red streaks of mud were splattered all over the white minivan. We were glad to be in a rental at that point!

We then headed up to Amicalola State Park to see the waterfall. It is also the beginning of the Appalachian Trail. A beautiful state park.

My handsome dude.

A cabin in the mountains is proving to be my favorite kind of vacation......